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inoffensive

adjective C2
  1. not offensive · an inoffensive joke
  2. harmless · an inoffensive plant
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By nature inoffensive, friendly, and obliging, his presentation at St.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 17 · B2
“If the fellow did not want the hue and cry raised over him, one would imagine that he would have returned and remained at the hotel as an inoffensive tourist.
The Valley of Fear, p. 75 · C1
It is the more terrible as he is a poor little inoffensive cripple." Ferguson's gaunt features softened as he spoke of his boy.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 57 · B2
Keep your journey a secret; do not boast of what you have come to Paris to do, or have done; return with all speed; enter Marseilles at night, and your house by the back-door, and there remain, quiet, submissive, secret, and, above all, inoffensive; for this time, I swear to you, we shall act like powerful men who know their enemies.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 117 · C1

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